Via Andy's response to
my brain dump yesterday about indexes, I learned about
Indieseek.xyz, which upon first glance looks like a modern Yahoo alternative. To my point I tried to make yesterday, when I go to Indieseek.xyz and browse through the categories I find new things. Browsing is how we first used the web, but it takes more time and is more laid back. Browsing is different than
searching, both have their place. To what I was going for yesterday, like most things modern, I think there is value in separating the presentation and interaction with of indexes with data of the index itself. For whatever reason, I like the expand/collapse format of outlines, but others may prefer the more "flat" format as exists on
Indieseek. Ideally, users could do both but interact with the same data, if you think about it, that is what RSS provides and I think is the idea behind OPML too and hence
why Dave was trying to get other developers like Logseq to fully support OPML... then users could use the tool they prefer to view and interact with the same data/information.
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I have started using LXQT on Ubuntu and just learned how to create a shortcut for an application. You have to drag and drop it from the menu to the task bar. It's strange to me how LXQT doesn't really support right-click on objects.
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- What if there were a RSS feed just for an article/essay like the one I wrote here? Imagine that each paragraph in the second then was a RSS item. I think then you would want the RSS content to persist in a reader but be updated whenever a change was detected in any of the items. I think the result would be a "living" document updated on one's computer whenever the author made a change. Hold on.... it just occurred to me we already have this with OPML, Drummer, and opmlBrowser! Time to pull together a demo.#
- Ok, here is a demo of what I was describing, all doable in OPML using Drummer and renderable using either pagePark or opmlBrowser. I created a new OPML file in Drummer with all of the parent nodes as you see. I collapsed my contributions to the document. I then asked Andy Sylvester to create a public OPML file containing his original post and provide me the URL, which I then included in to the outline that you can now see. #
- I think there are a couple of downsides to using Drummer and Dave's pagePark installation for hosting and rendering the OPML file. One is that in order for Andy's outline to be included it needs to be expanded in Drummer, as soon as I collapse it from Drummer the content included from his OPML file disappears. Consequently, I suspect that any updates Andy makes might not appear unless i have the file open in Drummer. Not sure if it has to be the active tab before the upgrades take affect. #
- I therefore think Andy's implementation of the opmlPackage might be better as it doesn't need Drummer to facilitate the updates. To test that theory I probably need to provision another server. In the mean time, I hope that you see how people could collaborate on a document that represents a body of knowledge on a particular topic. #